Parcel-holder or advertising-valise



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D'. W; LONG & 0. DIMIGK.

PARCEL HOLDER OR ADVERTISINGVALISE.

No. 476,803. Patented June 14, 1892.

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

PARCEL-HOLDER OR ADVERTISING-VALISE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,803, dated June 14;, 1892.

Application filed March 80, 1892.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, DANIEL W. LONG and CHARLES DIMIoK, citizens of the United States, residing at Lockport, in the county of ill and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Parcel-Holders or AdvertisingValises; and We do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The special object of the invention is to make a parcehholder or advertising-valise so cheaply that it may be given to each purchaser of one or more articles in a dry-goods or other mercantile establishment, the address and business of the merchant being printed thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a plan view of paper blank from which the valise is made; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the valise when completed and ready for use; Fig. 3, a detail of the wire spring which forms both a handle and fastener. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the top edge of one of the sides.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the valise, which is provided at the ends with the extension-strips a a, a and on one edge with the poles a Q5. The body A is folded on the parallel lines a a, so as to be of the same height as extension-strips a, which is folded on the dotted line a the sides and ends of the valise being thus arranged at right angles to the bottom. The upper edges of sides down to the dotted lines a a are double and contain the stiffening-strip of pasteboard, all

Serial No. 427,125. (No model.)

pasted together. across strips a.

B is a Wire-spring fastener and handle, which is secured at its ends to one side and provided with the ends I) I), which are passed through the holes a a of the other side, the said wire ends being then bent to hold the valise closed. The valise, with its contents, embracing one or more parcels, may then be very conveniently carried in the hand and may vary in size. They will cost,when man ufactured in quantity, less than two cents apiece, so that the merchant can afford to give them away.

As an article is purchased and formed into a parcel the merchant places it in a paper valise, which is very convenient for the customer to carry, and thus prevents anything from being forgotten or left behind.

WVhat we claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

The paper blank A, having the extensionstrips a acfiat each end, the side edges folded to the lines a a, and having the holes a a in one of the folded edges to adapt it to be folded on lines a" a and to have the said strips pasted on, as described, whereby a paper valise maybe made, as set forth.

In testimony whereof We have affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

The strips a a? are pasted DANIEL W. LONG. CHARLES DIMICK. Witnesses:

GEORGE M. UNDERWOOD, \VILLIAM t5. MYERS. 

